ITI's Bill Sanders, Uttam Thakore, and Gabe Weaver won the Best Paper Award, and Sanders received the 2016 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award at this year’s International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN).

Through a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, ITI's Carolyn Beck and CSL's Srinivasa Salapaka are developing algorithms to simplify and facilitate analysis of these large networks.

Mark Petri has been named director of the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Petri comes to CIRI from the Iowa Energy Center, where he had served as director since 2013.

CREDC is working to improve the resilience and security of the cyber networks that serve as the backbone of the infrastructure that delivers energy to the nation -- known as energy delivery systems (EDS).

The Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), a Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Center of Excellence, has formed an external advisory board, which will assist with the successful management of the Institute and its research, technology transition, and education and workforce development missions.